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plastic litter

Environment charities and industry join forces for Plastic Free Mersey

Thames21 and Mersey Rivers Trust announce collaboration to tackle litter on River Mersey catchment with Plastic Free Mersey launch on July 22

Published 15th July 20217th September 2021 Published in Media Releases, Thames 21

Thames21 wins prestigious award for its plastic monitoring programme

Thames21’s plastic monitoring citizen science project won a prestigious City award last night, less than a week after it released new data revealing the summer…

Published 26th September 201810th December 2018 Published in Latest news

Thames21 Badged Group reports huge amounts of plastic litter in Thames Estuary

Thames21’s latest Badged Group has cleared unprecedented amounts of plastic from the north side of the Thames Estuary. Last weekend the newly-accredited group, based in…

Published 19th January 201820th January 2018 Published in Latest news
Big Bottle Count September 2017

More than 4,000 plastic bottles removed from River Thames in one afternoon

  More than 4,000 plastic bottles were removed from the River Thames last Saturday as part of Thames21’s annual Big Bottle Count.  Approximately 200 Londoners…

Published 11th September 2017 Published in Latest news

Ninth annual 3 Rivers Clean Up to focus on plastic awareness as well as blitz on balsam

PRESS RELEASE Date of release: May 19 2017 The damage plastic is causing to the environment, particularly waterways, will be one of the themes of the…

Published 19th May 2017 Published in Media Releases

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    London’s rivers have benefitted from an impressive transformation of around 62km of waterways restored since 2000 through initiatives such as wetland creation and reedbed installation, according to the organisers of...
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